From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 13:37:25 +0800
To: mccoy@communities.com (Jim McCoy)
Subject: Re: The Joy of Java
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Jim McCoy writes:
> Rather than trying (and often failing) to prove that unsolvable problems
> exist in Java why don't you present the net with an alternative that does
> not suffer from these limitations.

I'm not sure that an alternative per se is needed.

Java is overgeneral for the task that it is being used for. This
overgenerality leads to danger. I agree that in and of itself its a
nice programming language.

.pm